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And he knew an anger of the brain as well as an anger of the heart.
But this anger roused him, and he resolved to do something from which
till now he had instinctively shrunk, strong-willed man though he was.
If Gaspare would not help him he would act for himself. Possibly the
suspicion, the fear that beset him was groundless. He had put it away
from him more than once, had said that it was absurd, that his
profession of an imaginative writer rendered him, perhaps, more liable
to strange fancies than were other men, that it encouraged him to seek
instinctively for drama, and that what a man instinctively and
perpetually seeks he will often imagine that he has found. Now he
would try to prove what was the truth.
He had written to Hermione saying that he would be glad to dine with
her on any evening that suited the Marchesino, that he had no
engagements. Why she wished him to meet the Marchesino he did not
know. No doubt she had some woman's reason. The one she gave was
hardly enough, and he divined another beneath it.


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